San Giovanni

This guide to San Giovanni on Lake Como traces the first religious foundation on Bellagio soil, with priests already recorded here around the year 995, through the baroque church rebuilt between 1584 and 1685 that stands on the site today. It follows the double devotion behind its walls: an official dedication to John the Baptist alongside a quieter, fisherman's faith in Saint Nicholas, protector of sailors. Inside, a sixteenth-century altarpiece and a Madonna carried from Genoa still preside over three naves of gilded stucco.